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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 76

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The Sculptor replied, “Well, if you will buy these, I’ll fling you that into the bargain.”

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**Who acts:** Sculptor, you · **What happens:** reply, buy, fling · **To what, where:** these, you, bargain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sculptor, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg21:8:76
# text = The Sculptor replied, “Well, if you will buy these, I’ll fling you that into the bargain.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sculptor	Sculptor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fling	fling	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Sculptor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **buy** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you | these |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 3 | **fling** *in a quote* | future | the Sculptor *= sculptor* | you |  | the bargain |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent you=Theme into bargain=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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